Differences between “BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY” and “BEGIN PRIVATE KEY”

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Hi I was writing a program that imports private keys from a .pem file and create a private key object to use it later..
the problem I have faced is that some pem files header begin with 

-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----

while others begin with

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

through my search I knew that the first ones are PKCS#8 formatted but I couldn’t know what format does the other one belongs to.

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